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Many Attend Amateur Radio Operator Event:

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 05:16 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37285


WAYMART -- The Wayne County Amateur Radio Club held its second annual field
day with local Boy Scouts. It provides attendees with the opportunity to
see how amateur radio stations work. The field days are also open to the
public. The club is part of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the
national association for Amateur Radio. ARRL Field Days have been taking
place since 1933.
The Get On The Air Station (GOTA) allows the club to communicate with
amateur radio operators around the world. This year the event was held at
the Valleyview Farms Campground. There were eight amateur radio stations on
the air. "Amateur Radio Operators provide a both a public service and
reliable communications when the normal infrastructure is offline," Joseph
Cieciorka, president of the Wayne County Amateur Radio Club, previously
stated. According to the ARRL, the field day "demonstrates ham radio's
ability to work reliably under any conditions from almost any location and
create an independent communications network." "If there's an interruption
of service or you're out of range of a cell tower, you have no way to
communicate," said Sean Kutzko of the American Radio Relay League, the
national association for Amateur Radio. "Ham radio functions completely
independent of the Internet or cell phone infrastructure, can interface
with tablets or smartphones, and can be set up almost anywhere in
minutes. "Hams can literally throw a wire in a tree for an antenna, connect
it to a battery-powered transmitter and communicate halfway around the
world. "In today's electronic do-it-yourself (DIY) environment, ham radio
remains one of the best ways for people to learn about electronics,
physics, meteorology, and numerous other scientific disciplines, and is a
huge asset to any community during disasters if the standard communication
infrastructure goes down."


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Ham Radio Club Sees Antenna Towers:

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 05:15 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37284


On a semi-cloudy evening July 7, instead of having an inside meeting of the
Clearwater Valley A.R.C. Ham Radio Club, our President and Emergency
Management Coordinator, Don Gardner, led us up around crooked and steep
roads to the top of a local mountain. Once there, we had a wonderful
encircling view of the surrounding valley area. After arriving there and
stumbling out of our vehicles from the windy and bumpy ride, we hiked
outside and up to the tall antenna towers and a small building at the base.
That structure housed the various transmitter and repeaters used for all
local, emergency and ham communications in the valley. It is amazing what
equipment it takes to properly get radio signals to and from the various
entities that make transmissions between their companies, and the emergency
services of our community through that site.


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FCC Seeks Comments on Waiver Request from Expert Linears:

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 09:24 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37283


The FCC is inviting comments on a June 11 request from Expert
Linears America LLC to waive Part 97.317(a)(2) of the Amateur
Service rules to permit it to import, market, and use its model 1.3K
FA amplifier in the US. The Texas company is seeking the waiver
pending resolution of its earlier Petition for Rule Making
(RM-11767), which called on the Commission to eliminate the 15 dB
gain limitation on Amateur Radio amplifiers altogether. Expert said
the version of the model 1.3K FA amplifier it now imports has been
modified to comply with current rules.


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FCC Proposes Rule Changes in Response to ARRL's 'Symbol Rate' Petition:

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 09:26 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37282


The FCC has proposed to revise the Amateur Service Part 97 rules in
response to the ARRL's so-called "Symbol Rate" Petition for Rule
Making (RM-11708), filed in late 2013, and it has invited comments
on its recommended changes. The Notice of Proposed Rule Making
(NPRM) in WT Docket 16-239, released on July 28, had been making the
rounds at the FCC since May. ARRL had asked the FCC to change the
Part 97 rules to delete the symbol rate limits in Part 97.307(f) and
replace it with a maximum bandwidth for data emissions of 2.8 kHz on
amateur frequencies below 29.7 MHz.


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Propagation Forecast Bulletin #31 de K7RA:

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 09:25 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37281


Reporting this week from the Hill Country of West Texas, Kerrville,
northwest of San Antonio. Happy to report that the food is
delicious, the locals very friendly and hospitable, and gas costs
only two bucks a gallon. Speed limit on the highways is 75 MPH, and
it seems almost like the 1970s again.


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Dayton Hamvention 2017 News Update -- (Hamvention Moving):

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 09:13 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37277


The Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) regrets to inform our many
vendors, visitors and stakeholders that, unfortunately, HARA has announced
the closing of their facility. We have begun execution of our contingency
plan to move Hamvention 2017 to a new home.


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Posted: 29 Jul 2016 09:24 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37276


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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2022, July 29, 2016:

Posted: 29 Jul 2016 09:12 AM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37275


The following is a QST. News reports again raise questions about
Hamvention's future at Dayton's Hara Arena. Amateurs discover different
ways to help in wildfire country. Get ready for a one-man National Parks
marathon -- and at long last, Thailand administers its Advance Class radio
test. All this and more in Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2022 coming
your way right now.